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...them. "Turner teaches cats how to land on their feet," says a cnn correspondent who knows him well. "We are confident he'll do the right thing. He has confided to higher-ups--and I was there--that he would just as soon be a little fish in a big pond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME WARNER'S HEAD TURNER | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

...rise as the aquifers of the Western plains recede and more rivers are diverted to irrigation. But assuming the price remains at $45 per 1,000 cu. ft., the value of Lake Superior would be an astounding $20 trillion. In addition, Minnesota would receive current market prices for the fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINNESOTA'S SENSIBLE PLAN | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

Siberia is much, much more, however, than the locus of past political evil. For every person sent unwillingly to exile in its arctic wastelands, many others came to hunt, trap, fish, log or mine. The harsh life drove many back, but others stayed, captivated by the sublime beauty of earth's greatest northern landscape. Vitali Menshikov, an oceanographer by training, came to the Kamchatka peninsula in the Far East 27 years ago. He has returned to Leningrad only once; instead, he has used his vacations to take expeditions--61 so far--on ski and foot through this breathtaking land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIBERIA: THE TORTURED LAND | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

...right, there weren't any. And we'd guess that few families gather round the piano to sing of the invasions of Grenada and Panama. Vietnam is pretty much an angry face-off between Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler (The Ballad of the Green Berets) and Country Joe & the Fish (I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag). The Korean War has a memorial now, but still no memorable songs. It's as if, after World War II, Americans decided that internationally sanctioned slaughter was no longer something to sing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE THE POSITIVE | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

...only known group of flying mammals, they range in size from Thailand's tiny bumblebee bat, weighing less than a penny, to Indonesia's giant flying fox, with wingspans of nearly 6 ft. Many bats feed on insects, while others prefer fruit, nectar or pollen. A few feast on fish, frogs, rodents and, yes, blood. Contrary to legend, however, vampire bats, which dwell in Latin America, suck the blood of grazing cattle and horses, not sleeping humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATS' NEW IMAGE | 8/21/1995 | See Source »

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